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E. HALE. Barrel Hoop.

No. $29,699. Patented July 6,1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD HALE, OF WIGAN, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO JAMES J. MGCOMB, OF NEWYORK, N. Y.

BARREL-HOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 229,699, dated July 6,1880.

Application led J une 8, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD HALE, of Wigan, in the.county of Lancashire,England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Barrel-Hoops, ofwhich the following is a specication.

By the existing modes of making iron or steel hoops for casks, barrels,and similar vessels the ends of the hoops are fastened by riv! 1o eting. This riveting, ordinarily, is not done by the manufacturer of thehoops, but at the time and place of applying the hoop to the barrel orcask. The hoops as sold in the market are simply plain bands of iron orsteel, or bands with rivet-holes punched in the ends. For themanufacturer to complete the hoop by riveting the ends together wouldrender it cumbersome for transportation and storage, and thus addgreatly to the cost of the article to the 2o consumer. On the otherhand, it is, for various reasons, a recognized inconvenience to theconsumer to be obliged to rivet the hoop at the time of use.

The present invention seeks to obviate these z 5 difficulties, inherentin the existing modes of manufacture, and to provide a hoop which,practically, will be complete as it leaves the hands of themanufacturer, without, however, having its ends actually joined, andwhich 3o will be ready for immediate use as it comes into the hands ofthe consumer without the necessity, on his part, of splaying it or ofriveting the ends together.

The invention is illustratedin the accompa- 3 5 nying drawings, in whichFigure l is a plan of the improved hoop as prepared ready for themarket, Fig. 2 being a central longitudinal section of the same, thestuds being shown in -elevation, and Fig. 3 representing in plan the 4dblank from which it is made. Fig. 4 is an elevation of the hoop with thetwo ends joined ready for use, and Fig. 5 is a sectional view of thesame on the dotted line x of Fig. 4.

One edge of the blank, originally straight,

4 5 as shown in Fig. 3, isto be spread or splayed, which brings it intoa curved form, as shown in Fig. l, the object being so to shape themetal that when the hoop is bent up one edge will have a larger diameterthan the other, to

5o accommodate it vto the swell of the barrel.

One end, A, of the blank is then punched with one or more (preferablytwo) holes or slots, which it is preferred should be of the form shownin the drawings. In the other end, B, studs, buttons, or cleats are tobe secured by riveting. These devices are of proper shape to permit themreadily to enter the aforesaid apertures, and they are otherwise soconstructed that when they have entered the apertures and been drawn upinto place some 6o part will overhang the metal immediately adjacent tothe apertures, and thus hold the two ends ofthe hoop against springingapart. A convenient form of stud for this purpose, and 011e speciallyadapted to the apertures shown in the drawings, is that illustrated inFigs. l and 2, which consists of a shank or neck sufciently small to bedrawn into the narrow part m of the apertures, and of a head which,while small enough to pass through the larger 7o part n of theapertures, will project over the walls of the narrower part. The spacebetween the overhang of the head of the' stud and the face of the hoopshould be just equal to the thickness of the other end of the hoop, asthis will bring the two ends into the closest contact.

When a hoop is to be provided with slots and riveted studs, as abovedescribed, the desirability of splaying it before the attachment 8o ofthe studs or the punching of the slots will be manifest. If this were tobe done afterward there would be danger of displacing or distorting thestuds, or of changing the form of the slots. Moreover, by splayin g thehoop 8 5 before the punching of the slots or the attachment of the studsthe work can be done by machinery, and thus the maximum economy, as wellas exactness and uniformity of construction, be secured. 9o

If desired, the hoops can be prepared and sold in sets, the severalhoops of each set being accurately made so as to have a different spreadfrom the others of the set, according to their respective positions, asdesignated by the well-known terms chine-hoop, bulgehoop,77 andintermediate hoop.

Manifestly the forms of the apertures and of the studs or cleats may bechanged from those shown in the drawings, the essential feature 10obeing the capacity of the two to lock the two ends of the hoop so as toprevent their springing apart.

With a hoop constructed as above shown and descrihed,nll that isrequired of the cooper in applying it to use is simply to lock the twoends together with the studs pointing outward, and place it over thestave/S to be secured und drive it home.

Preferably the ends ot' the hoop at the points where the studs und theapertures are located should be thickened as compared with the body ofthe hoop, after the manner fully set forth in Letters Patent of theUnited States EDWARD HALE.

XVitnesses:

J oHN MACKEY, JOHN FrrzsIMoNs.

